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Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication 10

By : Chris Childerhose
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Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication 10

By: Chris Childerhose

Overview of this book

Veeam is one of the leading modern data protection solutions, and mastering this technology can help you to protect your virtual environments effectively. This book guides you through implementing modern data protection solutions for your cloud and virtual infrastructure with Veeam. You will even gain in-depth knowledge of advanced concepts such as DataLabs, cloud backup and recovery, Instant VM Recovery, and Veeam ONE. This book starts by taking you through Veeam essentials, including installation, best practices, and optimizations for Veeam Backup & Replication. You'll get to grips with the 3-2-1 rule to safeguard data along with understanding how to set up a backup server, proxies, repositories, and more. Later chapters go on to cover a powerful feature of Veeam 10 – NAS backup. As you progress, you'll learn about scale-out Repositories and best practices for creating them. In the concluding chapters, you'll explore the new proxy option available in both Linux and Windows. Finally, you'll discover advanced topics such as DataLabs, cloud backup and recovery, Instant VM Recovery, and Veeam ONE. By the end of this book, you will be equipped with the skills you need to implement Veeam Backup & Replication for your environment and disaster recovery.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Section 1: Installation – Best Practices and Optimizations
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Section 2: Storage – NAS Backup, Linux, SOBR, and OBS
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Section 3: DataLabs, Cloud Backup, and Veeam ONE

Distinguishing the differences between Windows and Linux proxy servers

Deploying a proxy server works the same whether you select Windows or Linux, and they do the same job, which is task processing for the backup server. There are, however, some requirements and limitations for both Windows and Linux, which we will cover.

When you deploy a proxy server, the hardware requirements for both Windows and Linux are pretty much the same:

  • CPU: An x86-64 processor with a minimum of two cores (vCPUs), plus one additional core per concurrent task
  • Memory: 2 GB of RAM plus 200 MB for each concurrent task
  • Disk space: 300 MB plus an additional 50 MB per concurrent task
  • Network: 1 Gbps or faster for onsite backup and replication with 1 Mbps or faster for offsite backup and replication

    Important Note

    A task during the backup process on a proxy server is one VMDK file of a VM. So, if you have a backup job with five VMs, each with four disk (VMDK) files each, and your proxy server...